We're pleased to inform you that you can now shop for eBooks at Amazon.com.au. We have been working hard to bring you a great selection of eBooks, including Australian best sellers and hundreds of thousands of titles that are exclusive to Kindle. You can read local customer reviews and purchase eBooks in Australian Dollars.

On your Kindle Fire device, you will also have access to the new Australian Amazon Appstore with a great selection of quality Android apps, games and a growing library of Australian favourites. Australian Appstore has local customer reviews, updated Australian best sellers, and you can purchase apps and games in Australian Dollars.

To take advantage of the great selection, you can simply make Amazon.com.au your default store for digital content by clicking the button below. You do not need to create a new account and you can continue to shop for physical goods at Amazon.com or at Amazon.co.uk.

What will happen after you make Amazon.com.au your default store for digital content?

• You will be able to shop for Kindle eBooks at Amazon.com.au and access the Australian Kindle eBook store on all your Kindle devices and Kindle reading applications.
• You will also be able to shop the Australian Amazon Appstore on your Kindle Fire device. If you also shop the Amazon Appstore on another Android device, you will continue to access the Amazon.com Appstore on that device.
• You can continue to purchase physical goods at Amazon.com in US Dollars or at Amazon.co.uk in British Pounds.
• You will continue to have access to all of your past eBook and app purchases.
• If you currently have magazine or newspaper subscriptions, they will be cancelled and you will receive a pro-rated refund.
• If you have purchased Audiobooks from Audible.com, you will no longer be able to access those from your Kindle Fire device. However, you can continue to access your audiobooks by downloading them from Audible.com on a supported device.
• Amazon.com.au supports Visa, MasterCard and American Express.

The new Australian Kindle Store offers over 2 million eBooks sold in Australian dollars, the most English language best sellers including 9 of the 10 best sellers from the Sydney Morning Herald list and more than 400,000 Kindle-exclusive titles

The Australian Kindle Store is seamlessly integrated with the new Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX—customers can search for a book directly from the device and start reading in 60 seconds or less

Kindle books are “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” with free Kindle reading apps for the most popular devices and platforms

The Kindle reading app will be available on Telstra Android devices via the TelstraOne app

SEATTLE—November 12, 2013—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today launched the Australian Kindle Store, offering over 2 million eBooks, the most English language best sellers, more than 400,000 Kindle-exclusive titles, best-selling illustrated children’s and young adult books, cookbooks, comics and graphic novels, and more. Amazon also announced that in addition to Kindle Paperwhite, the all-new Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX tablets are now on sale locally in Australia at Dick Smith and Big W stores—for more details, visit www.amazon.com.au.

Wow - Kindle Fire is actually become relevant for Australians? No digital movie/music content yet though. I've been waiting to see if Amazon will jump into that market as I'm not particularly impressed with the current options.

Just realised how expensive the new Paperwhite 3G is. $209 without special offers. Say what?!

The current exchange rate is 1 USD to 1.07 AUD. GST is 10%. So why the prices?

Having a quick peek at the top sellers list in the launch shop, Allegiant is $11.99, while on the US Kindle store it's $6.99. The Rosie Project: equivalently priced. Hard Luck: $9.99 Aus, $7.47 US. The Luminaries: equivalent. Vicious Circle: $17.99 AUD, $12.59 US. Doctor Sleep: $19.99 AUD, $7.64 US. A Game of Thrones: $4.99 AU, $2.90 US. The Signature of All Things: equivalent. Just One Evil Act: $19.99 vs $6.59. The Book Thief: $12.99 vs $2.90.

Looks like it's just another venue for the Australia Tax. The only plus I can see is that they carry a few Aussie books that haven't been released in the US yet; but they're not books you can't get anywhere else.

The current exchange rate is 1 USD to 1.07 AUD. GST is 10%. So why the prices?<snip>

Looks like it's just another venue for the Australia Tax. The only plus I can see is that they carry a few Aussie books that haven't been released in the US yet; but they're not books you can't get anywhere else.

The books will probably be sourced from Australian publishers, who we all know set higher prices, so unless you are after Australian-only books you're almost certainly better off buying from another country if you can.

However this move will capture the far larger segment of the market who don't know about circumventing geo-restrictions and the Australia Tax.

The books will probably be sourced from Australian publishers, who we all know set higher prices, so unless you are after Australian-only books you're almost certainly better off buying from another country if you can.

However this move will capture the far larger segment of the market who don't know about circumventing geo-restrictions and the Australia Tax.

Oh yep I agree.

Avoid Amazon as much as possible and for example use Kobo with the ample volume of discount vouchers that seem to be constantly available.

Although some books on Kobo are dearer they're more than competitive when you use a discount voucher and often cheaper by a country mile depending on the size of the voucher.

Also, changing countries on Kobo is as easy as.

And of course with Kobo having declared that Norfolk Island is it's own country and priced it independently of Aus on a number of books (not all from what I see, and that I think depends on which published version it carries) then freely use that site.

Beware though that while Kobo Norfolk Island carries ebooks that are discountable there but not in Aus (depending on the published version they're carrying) the charge is in USD. Another odd Kobo quirk - to give an Aus island independent country status and then give it USD

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